Day Out!

So today has been a really fun day. We slept in and then we got ready and headed out to Deleon Springs. (There are so many springs around here I get them confused. Anyhow it was Deleon not Blue springs.) Once we got there we found out that the wait for the pancake restaurant was two hours. So we bought some snacks and sat out by the springs.
It was pretty relaxing and today was the perfect day for it. It wasn't too hot and there was a nice breeze going. After we finished our snacks we decided to look around the visitor's center there which was pretty interesting.
Then we decided to rent a paddle boat and boat around the springs. It was amazing! We saw THREE gators. I could have probably lived without seeing them. Especially one of them. We didn't notice him until he started swimming away. We must have disturbed him with the paddle boat because he was only a few feet away when he started swimming away. It was closer than I would have liked to be but he seemed more bothered by us than the other way around. I can't believe I live in a place where we see gators on a relaxing paddle boat ride!!!
Anyhow, we finally got to eat and it turned out to be really good. I'm not sure if that's because we were pretty hungry by then or if it was by it's own merits. Either way we'll probably go back. We'll just make sure we're early.